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Pastor Craig launched our new series based on Pete Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Discipleship with a message titled “Healthy Balanced Living,” centered on the seven pillars of spiritual, emotional, sexual, mental, relational, physical, and financial health. Through the example of Jesus, who expressed compassion, love, grief, sorrow, righteous anger, joy, and other emotions while remaining sinless, we were challenged to embrace healthy emotionality as an essential part of following Christ.
Drawing from 1 John 2:9–11, Pastor Craig highlighted the dangers of spiritual activity without emotional maturity, emphasizing the difference between doing for God and being with God, where true transformation takes place. As we shared Communion, we were invited to examine our hearts, bring hidden places into the light, pursue repentance, counseling, accountability, and Life Group community, and allow Jesus to bring freedom and restoration. Which of the seven pillars needs God’s attention in your life, and are you willing to move from simply doing for Jesus to truly being with Him?
Pastor Doug continued our Summer in the Psalms series with Psalm 100, focusing on the theme of “Initiating Worship.”
Through Psalm 100, along with Philippians 2:7–8 and 1 John 4:17, he explored how worship begins with taking initiative to joyfully praise God, embrace our identity as His people, cultivate gratitude, and trust in His goodness, enduring love, and faithfulness. We were reminded that Jesus modeled humility and self-denial, showing us that true worship is transformative and calls us to live differently because of who—and what—we worship.
As we entered into a time of personal praise and worship, Pastor Doug challenged us to consider: Does your lifestyle match your worship? What does your worship cost you? Watch the full message and discover how initiating worship can reshape your heart, thinking, and everyday walk with God.
In this message from our Summer in the Psalms series, Pastor Craig explores Psalm 27, focusing on David’s declaration that the Lord is his light, salvation, and stronghold in the midst of danger, fear, and life’s challenges. The sermon centers on David’s “one thing”: to dwell in God’s presence, gaze upon His beauty, seek Him daily, and find confidence, protection, and peace through time spent with Him.
Pastor Craig highlights six themes throughout the Psalm—confident trust, dwelling in God’s presence, praise for His protection, a cry for connection, a call for direction and help, and the exhortation to wait on the Lord. As we face our own seasons of pain, uncertainty, or “army-sized” challenges, we are reminded that God remains faithful and invites us to make His presence our safe place. What would change in your life if spending daily time in God’s presence truly became your “one thing”?
In Psalm 73, Pastor Doug explores what happens when life seems unfair and we find ourselves comparing our lives with those who appear successful, happy, or blessed. Through Asaph’s journey from envy and confusion to renewed perspective in God’s presence, we are reminded that our identity is found not in the world’s values, but in God’s truth, His guidance, His presence, and the eternal inheritance He gives us.
Pastor Doug highlights seven ways life begins to make sense when God becomes our focus: we live in His presence, recognize that He is always with us, follow His counsel, live with eternity in view, desire what He desires, embrace our inheritance in Him, and make God our identity. What would change in your life if you stopped comparing yourself to others and allowed God to change your perspective, reminding you that you are greatly loved?